This is a list of authors who have written works of fiction in the Russian language. The list encompasses novelists and writers of short fiction.
This is a list of authors who have written works of fiction in the Russian language. The list encompasses novelists and writers of short fiction.
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Narine Abgaryan (b.1971) | Three Apples Fell From the Sky Manyunya | ||
| Fyodor Abramov (1920–1983) | The New Life Wooden Horses Two Winters and Three Summers |  | ||
| M. Ageyev (1898–1973) | Novel with Cocaine |  | ||
 | Chinghiz Aitmatov (1928–2008) | Jamilya The White Ship The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years |  |  |
 | David Aizman (1869–1922) | The Countrymen | ||
 | Sergey Aksakov (1791–1859) | The Scarlet Flower The Family Chronicle Years of Childhood A Russian Schoolboy |  |  |
| Vasily Aksyonov (1932–2009) | The Burn Colleagues Generations of Winter The Winter's Hero | |||
 | Boris Akunin (born 1956) | Erast Fandorin series Nicholas Fandorin series Sister Pelagia series |  | |
 | Mikhail Albov (1851–1911) | On the New Road | ||
 | Yuz Aleshkovsky (born 1929) | The Hand Kangaroo | ||
 | Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862–1938) | Napoleonder The Fire Flower |  |  |
 | Daniil Andreyev (1906–1959) | Roza Mira |  | |
 | Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919) | Darkness The Abyss The Red Laugh The Seven Who Were Hanged |  | |
 | Yury Annenkov (1889–1974) | A Tale of Trivia |  | |
 | Aleksey Apukhtin (1840–1893) | From Death to Life The Archive of Countess D |  |  |
 | Maria Arbatova (born 1957) | My name is Woman |  | |
 | Mikhail Artsybashev (1878–1927) | Sanin Ivan Lande Breaking Point Tales of the Revolution |  |  |
 | Viktor Astafyev (1924–2001) | Queen Fish Sad Detective To Live Your Life The Cursed and the Slain |  | |
 | Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925) | Ninochka |  |  |
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Isaak Babel (1894–1940) | Red Cavalry The Odessa Tales |  |  |
 | Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009) | The Foothold Forever Nineteen South of the Main Offensive | ||
| Natalya Baranskaya (1908–2004) | A Week Like Any Other | |||
 | Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950) | The Malachite Box |  |  |
 | Dmitry Begichev (1786–1855) | The Kholmsky Family | ||
| Alexander Bek (1903–1972) | And Not to Die The Story of an Inventor The New Appointment | |||
 | Andrei Bely (1880–1934) | Petersburg Kotik Letaev The Silver Dove Moscow |  |  |
 | Alexander Belyaev (1884–1942) | Professor Dowell's Head Ariel Amphibian Man |  |  |
| Nina Berberova (1901–1993) | The Accompanist The Tattered Cloak The Italics are Mine The Book of Happiness |  | ||
 | Alexander Bestuzhev (1797–1837) | The Test On Bivouac |  |  |
| Vitaly Bianki (1894–1959) | Whose Nose is Better? | |||
 | Aleksei Bibik (1878–1976) | |||
 | Andrei Bitov (1937–2018) | Pushkin House The Monkey Link Life in Windy Weather A Captive of the Caucasus | ||
| Nikolai Blagoveshchensky (1837–1889) | Before the Dawn | |||
 | Pyotr Boborykin (1836–1921) | China Town | ||
 | Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928) | Red Star |  | |
| Vladimir Bogomolov (1926–2003) | Ivan The Moment of Truth | |||
| Yuri Bondarev (1924–2020) | Silence The Shore The Hot Snow | |||
| Leonid Borodin (1938–2011) | Partings The Third Truth The Story of a Strange Time The Year of Miracle and Grief | |||
 | Valery Bryusov (1873–1924) | The Fiery Angel The Republic of the Southern Cross |  |  |
 | Yury Buida (born 1954) | The Zero Train The Prussian Bride Sinbad the Sailor | ||
 | Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) | The White Guard The Master and Margarita Heart of a Dog The Fatal Eggs |  | |
 | Kir Bulychev (1934–2003) | Half a Life Great Gusliar Earth and Elsewhere Alisa Selezneva | ||
 | Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) | Dry Valley The Village Dark Avenues The Life of Arseniev |  | |
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Aleksey Chapygin (1870–1937) | Stepan Razin |  | |
| Sergei Charchoun (1888–1975) | Dolgolikov | |||
 | Lidia Charskaya (1875–1938) | Princess Dzhavakha |  | |
 | Alexander Chekhov (1855–1913) |  |  | |
 | Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) | A Dreary Story Ward No. 6 The Duel Peasants |  |  |
 | Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828–1889) | What Is to Be Done? |  | |
 | Evgeny Chirikov (1864–1932) | The Magician Strained Relations Marka of the Pits |  |  |
| Lydia Chukovskaya (1907–1996) | Sofia Petrovna | |||
 | Georgy Chulkov (1879–1939) |  | ||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yuli Daniel (1925–1988) | This is Moscow Speaking | |||
 | Grigory Danilevsky (1829–1890) | Moscow in Flames The Princess Tarakanova |  |  |
 | Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960) |  |  | |
 | Valentina Dmitryeva (1859–1947) | Hveska, The Doctor's Watchman |  |  |
 | Leonid Dobychin (1894–1936) | The Town of N Encounters with Lise |  | |
 | Yury Dombrovsky (1909–1978) | The Faculty of Useless Knowledge The Keeper of Antiquities | ||
 | Vlas Doroshevich (1864–1922) | Legends and Stories of the East |  | |
 | Lyubov Dostoyevskaya (1869–1926) | The Emigrant |  |  |
 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) | Notes from Underground Crime and Punishment The Idiot Demons The Brothers Karamazov The House of the Dead The Gambler "White Nights" "A Gentle Creature" "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" |  |  |
 | Mikhail Dostoyevsky (1820–1864) |  |  | |
| Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990) | The Zone Affiliate | |||
 | Alexander Druzhinin (1824–1864) | Polinka Saks The Story of Aleksei Dmitrich |  |  |
| Vladimir Dudintsev (1918–1998) | White Garments A New Year's Tale Not by Bread Alone | |||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967) | Julio Jurenito The Thaw |  |  |
 | Sergey Elpatyevsky (1854–1933) | Pity Me! The Homeless Ones | ||
 | Asar Eppel (1935–2012) | The Grassy Street Red Caviar Sandwiches | ||
 | Victor Erofeyev (born 1947) | Russian Beauty Life with an Idiot | ||
 | Alexander Ertel (1855–1908) | The Specialist A Greedy Peasant |  | |
| Mikhail Evstafiev (born 1963) | Two Steps from Heaven | |||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Fadeyev (1901–1956) | The Rout The Young Guard |  | ||
| Konstantin Fedin (1892–1977) | Early Joys The Conflagration Cities and Years No Ordinary Summer | |||
| Olga Forsh (1873–1961) | Palace and Prison Pioneers of Freedom | |||
 | Dmitry Furmanov (1891–1926) | Chapayev |  |  |
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkady Gaidar (1904–1941) | Chuk and Gek The Blue Cup Timur and his Gang |  | ||
 | Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky (1852–1906) | Practical Training |  |  |
 | Vsevolod Garshin (1855–1888) | Four Days The Red Flower |  |  |
 | Gaito Gazdanov (1903–1971) | An Evening with Claire Night Roads The Spectre of Alexander Wolf |  | |
| Yuri German (1910–1967) | Ivan Lapshin The Cause You Serve | |||
 | Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945) | The Devil's Doll Roman-Tzarevich |  | |
 | Anatoly Gladilin (1935–2018) | Moscow Racetrack |  | |
 | Fyodor Gladkov (1883–1958) | Cement Restless Youth | ||
 | Dmitry Glukhovsky (born 1979) | Metro 2033 | ||
 | Pyotr Gnedich (1855–1925) | The Burden of this World | ||
 | Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) | Dikanka Taras Bulba The Overcoat Dead Souls |  |  |
 | Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891) | A Common Story Oblomov The Precipice |  |  |
 | Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) | Mother Through Russia Stories of 1922–1924 The Artamonov Business The Life of Klim Samgin |  |  |
| Nina Gorlanova (born 1947) | ||||
 | Daniil Granin (1919–2017) | Into the Storm Those Who Seek |  | |
 | Dmitry Grigorovich (1822–1900) | The Fishermen |  |  |
| Alexander Grin (1880–1932) | Scarlet Sails The Seeker of Adventure |  |  | |
 | Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944) | |||
 | Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) | Stalingrad Life and Fate Forever Flowing |  | |
 | Elena Guro (1887–1913) | Autumnal Dream The Hurdy-Gurdy The Little Camels of the Sky |  |  |
 | Andrei Gusev (born 1952) | With Chronos' Permit On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds The World According to Novikoff |  | |
 | Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky (1867–1963) | The Land of the Fathers The Land of the Children | ||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) | Who is to Blame? |  | |
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ilf and Petrov Ilf (1897–1937) Petrov (1903–1942) | The Twelve Chairs The Little Golden Calf |  |  |
| Fazil Iskander (1929–2016) | Chik and His Friends Sandro of Chegem The Gospel According to Chegem The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules |  |  | |
 | Alexei Ivanov (born 1969) | |||
 | Vsevolod Ivanov (1895–1963) | Armoured Train 14-69 U The Kremlin The Secret of Secrets | ||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Nikolay Karamzin (1766–1826) | Poor Liza |  |  |
 | Nikolay Karazin (1842–1908) | The Two-Legged Wolf From North to South |  | |
 | Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky (1853–1892) | First Storm | ||
| Vladimir Karpov (1922–2010) | The Commander | |||
| Anna Kashina | In the Name of the Queen | |||
 | Ivan Kataev (1902–1937) | The Wife Immortality | ||
| Valentin Kataev (1897–1986) | Time Forward! The Embezzlers A White Sail Gleams The Cottage in the Steppe | |||
| Veniamin Kaverin (1902–1989) | Open Book The Two Captains The Unknown Artist | |||
| Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913–1962) | Star: A Story The Blue Notebook | |||
| Yury Kazakov (1927–1982) | Going To Town Adam and Eve | |||
 | Yuri Khanon (born 1965) | Skryabin As a Face Antedate Memories Alphonse, who didn't was |  |  |
 | Daniil Kharms (1905–1942) | The Old Woman |  | |
 | Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1889) | The Boarding School Girl |  |  |
| Sofia Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1865) | City Folk and Country Folk | |||
 | Marusya Klimova (born 1961) |  | ||
| Vsevolod Kochetov (1912–1973) | The Zhurbin Family What Do You Want Then? | |||
| Ivan Kokorev (1825–1853) | ||||
| Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952) | Red Love A Great Love Love of Worker Bees |  |  | |
 | Vladimir Korolenko (1853–1921) | Bad Company Makar's Dream The Blind Musician |  | |
 | Sofia Kovalevskaya (1859–1891) | Nihilist Girl |  |  |
| Vadim Kozhevnikov (1909–1984) | Shield and Sword | |||
| Nadezhda Kozhevnikova (born 1949) | Attorney Alexandra Tikhonovna | |||
 | Eugene Kozlovsky (born 1946) | |||
 | Vsevolod Krestovsky (1840–1895) | Knights of Industry |  | |
 | Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887–1950) | Quadraturin | ||
 | Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954) | |||
 | Aleksandr Kuprin (1870–1938) | The Duel Yama: The Pit The Bracelet of Garnets |  |  |
 | Andrey Kurkov (born 1961) | Death and the Penguin Penguin Lost | ||
 | Ivan Kushchevsky (1847–1876) | Nikolai Negorev |  | |
 | Mikhail Kuzmin (1872–1936) | Wings |  |  |
| Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929–1979) | Babi Yar | |||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lazar Lagin (1903–1979) | The Old Genie Hottabych | |||
 | Yulia Latynina (born 1966) | The Insider | ||
| Boris Lavrenyov (1891–1953) | The Forty-First The Heavenly Cap Such a Simple Thing The Courageous Heart | |||
 | Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792–1869) | The Heretic |  | |
 | Leonid Leonov (1899–1995) | The Badgers Soviet River The Thief The Pyramid | ||
 | Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) | A Hero of Our Time |  |  |
 | Nikolai Leskov (1831–1895) | The Cathedral Folk The Sealed Angel The Enchanted Wanderer Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk |  | |
 | Alexander Levitov (1835–1877) | Leatherhide the Cobbler |  | |
 | Nikolay Leykin (1841–1906) | Our Folk Abroad |  | |
 | Vladimir Lichutin (born 1940) | |||
 | Eduard Limonov (1943–2020) | It's Me, Eddie His Butler's Story Memoir of a Russian Punk |  |  |
| Dmitri Lipskerov (born 1964) | ||||
 | Sergey Lukyanenko (born 1968) | Night Watch Day Watch Twilight Watch Last Watch |  | |
 | Lev Lunts (1901–1924) | Native Land | ||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Grigori Machtet (1852–1901) | |||
 | Vladimir Makanin (1937–2017) | Baize-Covered Table With Decanter | ||
 | Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) | The Egyptian Stamp |  | |
 | Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852–1912) | Verotchka's Tales A Gold Nugget The Privalov Fortune |  |  |
 | Anatoly Marienhof (1897–1962) | Cynics |  | |
 | Alexandra Marinina (born 1957) | |||
 | Boleslav Markevich (1822–1884) | The Turning Point | ||
| Vladilen Mashkovtsev (1929–1997) | ||||
 | Pavel Melnikov (1818–1883) | |||
 | Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865–1941) | Christ and Antichrist (trilogy) |  |  |
 | Daniil Mordovtsev (1830–1905) | The Tsar and the Hetman | ||
 | Viktor Muyzhel (1880–1924) | The Year | ||
| Viktor Muravin (born 1929) | The Diary of Vikenty Angarov | |||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) | Mary The Defense The Gift Lolita |  | |
| Yuri Nagibin (1920–1994) | The Pipe Arise and Walk | |||
 | Vasily Narezhny (1780–1825) | A Russian Gil Blas | ||
 | Nikolay Naumov (1838–1901) | Strength Breaks the Straw | ||
| Andrei Navrozov (born 1956) | ||||
| Viktor Nekrasov (1911–1987) | Front-line Stalingrad Kira Georgievna | |||
 | Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko (1845–1936) | Peasant Tales of Russia | ||
 | Alexander Neverov (1886–1923) | City of Bread |  | |
| Friedrich Neznansky (1932–2013) | Red Square Night Wolves | |||
| Nikolay Nosov (1908–1976) | Neznaika |  | ||
 | Alexey Novikov-Priboy (1877–1944) | Tsushima The Captain The Sea Beckons | ||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956) | Plutonia Sannikov Land | ||
 | Vladimir Odoevsky (1803–1869) | Two Princesses The Living Corpse The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters |  |  |
 | Bulat Okudzhava (1924–1997) | A Taste of Liberty Good-bye, Schoolboy! The Art of Needles and Sins |  | |
 | Yury Olesha (1899–1960) | Envy Three Fat Men The Cherry Pit |  | |
| Vladimir Orlov (1936–2014) | Danilov, the Violist | |||
 | Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936) | Born of the Storm How the Steel Was Tempered |  | |
| Mikhail Osorgin (1878–1942) | Quiet Street My Sister's Story | |||
| Valentin Ovechkin (1904–1968) | Greetings from the Front | |||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Marina Palei (born 1955) | Rendezvous |  | |
 | Ivan Panaev (1812–1862) | Lions in the Provinces |  | |
 | Avdotya Panaeva (1820–1893) | A Woman's Lot | ||
| Vera Panova (1905–1973) | Seryozha Looking Ahead The Train Span of the Year |  | ||
 | Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) | Doctor Zhivago The Childhood of Luvers |  |  |
 | Konstantin Paustovsky (1892–1968) | A Tale of Life (6 novel series) | ||
| Pyotr Pavlenko (1899–1951) | Happiness Steppe Sunlight The Lost Son | |||
 | Oleg Pavlov (1970–2018) | |||
 | Karolina Pavlova (1807–1893) | A Double Life |  | |
| Victor Pelevin (born 1962) | Omon Ra | |||
 | Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938) | The Time: Night | ||
| Valentin Pikul (1928–1990) | ||||
 | Boris Pilnyak (1894–1938) | The Naked Year The Death of the Army Commander The Volga Falls into the Caspian Sea | ||
 | Aleksey Pisemsky (1821–1881) | Nina The Simpleton One Thousand Souls An Old Man's Sin |  |  |
 | Andrei Platonov (1899–1951) | Chevengur Dzhan The Foundation Pit Happy Moscow | ||
| Boris Polevoy (1908–1981) | He Came Back We Are Soviet People The Story of a Real Man | |||
 | Nikolay Pomyalovsky (1835–1863) | Seminary Sketches |  | |
 | Ignaty Potapenko (1856–1929) | A Russian Priest The General's Daughter |  | |
 | Dmitri Prigov (1940–2007) | Live in Moskow | ||
 | Zakhar Prilepin (born 1975) | |||
 | Alexander Prokhanov (born 1938) | Empire's Last Soldier | ||
 | Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) | The Queen of Spades The Captain's Daughter |  | |
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Alexander Radishchev (1749–1802) | Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow |  | |
| Valentin Rasputin (1937–2015) | Money for Maria Farewell to Matyora |  | ||
 | Aleksey Remizov (1877–1957) | The Clock Sisters of the Cross The History of the Tinkling Cymbal and Sounding Brass | ||
 | Fyodor Reshetnikov (1841–1871) | The Podlipnayans |  | |
 | Panteleimon Romanov (1884–1938) | Three Pairs of Silk Stockings Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms | ||
| Mikhail Roshchin (1933–2010) | First Love Twenty Minutes or So The Devil's Wheel in Kobuleti | |||
 | Dina Rubina (born 1953) | The Blackthorn |  | |
| Anatoly Rybakov (1911–1998) | Children of the Arbat Fear Dust and Ashes | |||
| Vladimir Rybakov (1947–2018) | Creature The Brand The Burden The Afghans | |||
 | Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954) | Artist The Trial Sphere | ||
| Maria Rybakova (born 1973) | ||||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irina Saburova (1907–1979) | Because of the Violets | |||
| German Sadulaev (born 1973) | I am a Chechen! | |||
 | Ilya Salov (1834–1902) | Butuzka | ||
 | Boris Savinkov (1879–1925) | The Pale Horse What Never Happened | ||
 | Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889) | The Golovlyov Family The History of a Town Modern Idyll Old Years in Poshekhonye |  |  |
 | Genrikh Sapgir (1928–1999) | |||
 | Sergey Semyonov (1868–1922) | Gluttons The Servant |  | |
| Yulian Semyonov (1931–1993) | Seventeen Instants of Spring | |||
 | Alexander Serafimovich (1863–1949) | Sand Nikita The Iron Flood The Little Miner | ||
 | Sergey Sergeyev-Tsensky (1875–1958) | Brusilov's Break-Through | ||
 | Marietta Shaginyan (1888–1982) | Mess-Mend | ||
| Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982) | The Kolyma Tales |  | ||
 | Olga Shapir (1850–1916) | The Settlement | ||
 | Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874–1952) | Deborah | ||
 | Alexander Sheller (1838–1900) | Putrid Moors | ||
 | Mikhail Shishkin (born 1961) |  |  | |
| Vyacheslav Shishkov (1873–1945) | Children of Darkness | |||
 | Ivan Shmelyov (1873–1950) | The Stone Age | ||
 | Mikhail Sholokhov (1905–1984) | And Quiet Flows the Don |  | |
| Ilya Shtemler (born 1933) | ||||
| Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974) | Stories from a Siberian Village | |||
| Konstantin Simonov (1915–1979) | Days and Nights The Living and the Dead |  | ||
| Andrei Sinyavsky (1925–1997) | Fantastic Stories | |||
 | Stepan Skitalets (1869–1941) | The Blacksmith The Love of a Scene Painter |  |  |
 | Vasily Sleptsov (1836–1878) | The Ward |  | |
| Sofia Soboleva (1840–1884) | Pros and Cons | |||
| Sasha Sokolov (born 1943) | A School for Fools | |||
 | Vladimir Sollogub (1813–1882) | The Snowstorm |  | |
 | Fyodor Sologub (1863–1927) | The Petty Demon The Created Legend |  |  |
| Vladimir Soloukhin (1924–1997) | Verdict | |||
| Leonid Solovyov (1906–1962) | Tale of Hodja Nasreddin | |||
 | Vsevolod Solovyov (1849–1903) | |||
 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) | The First Circle Cancer Ward The Red Wheel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |  | |
| Orest Somov (1793–1833) | Mommy and Sonny | |||
 | Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955) | The Queue | ||
 | Konstantin Staniukovich (1843–1903) | Bobtail Maximka The Convict Running to the Shrouds |  | |
 | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Arkady (1925–1991) Boris (1933–2012) | Prisoners of Power The Kid from Hell Hard to Be a God Roadside Picnic | ||
| Mikhail Sushkov (1775–1792) | The Russian Werther | |||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov (1885–1938) | Chocolate | ||
| Nadezhda Teffi (1872–1952) | Time Strangers Close Friends |  | ||
 | Nikolay Teleshov (1867–1957) | The Duel |  |  |
| Vladimir Tendryakov (1923–1984) | Son-in-Law Three, Seven, Ace | |||
 | Sergey Terpigorev (1841–1895) | The Ice Broke | ||
 | Nikolay Tikhonov (1896–1979) | War | ||
 | Vladislav Titov (1934–1987) | |||
 | Tatyana Tolstaya (born 1951) | The Slynx White Walls | ||
 | Aleksey K. Tolstoy (1817–1875) | Prince Serebrenni |  |  |
 | Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883–1945) | Buratino Aelita Peter the First The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin |  | |
 | Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) | The Cossacks War and Peace Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilyich |  |  |
 | Edward Topol (born 1938) | Red Square | ||
| Yury Trifonov (1925–1981) | Another Life The Old Man The Disappearance The Long Good-Bye | |||
| Gavriil Troyepolsky (1905–1995) | White Bim Black Ear | |||
| Alexei Tsvetkov (born 1947) | ||||
 | Evgenia Tur (1815–1892) | Antonina The Shalonski Family | ||
 | Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) | A Sportsman's Sketches Home of the Gentry On the Eve Fathers and Sons |  |  |
 | Yury Tynyanov (1894–1943) | Lieutenant Kijé | [1] | |
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Anya Ulinich (born 1973) | Petropolis | ||
 | Pavel Ulitin (1918–1986) | |||
 | Lyudmila Ulitskaya (born 1943) | Sonechka The Funeral Party Medea and Her Children Daniel Stein |  | |
 | Gleb Uspensky (1843–1902) | The Steam Chicken |  |  |
 | Nikolay Uspensky (1837–1889) | Porridge The Village Schoolmaster | ||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Pyotr Valuyev (1815–1890) |  | ||
 | Konstantin Vaginov (1899–1934) | Goat Song Works and Days of Svistonov |  | |
 | Tatiana Vedenska (born 1976) | |||
 | Mikhail Veller (born 1948) | The Guru | ||
 | Alexander Veltman (1800–1870) | The Wanderer |  | |
 | Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861–1928) | The Keys to Happiness |  | |
 | Vikenty Veresaev (1867–1945) | Sisters The Deadlock In the Steppe |  |  |
 | Lidia Veselitskaya (1857–1936) | Mimi's Marriage | ||
 | Igor Vishnevetsky (born 1964) | Leningrad Non-Elective Affinities | ||
| Nikolai Virta (1906–1976) | Alone | |||
| Georgi Vladimov (1931–2003) | Faithful Ruslan | |||
 | Vladimir Voinovich (1932–2018) | Moscow 2042 Private Ivan Chonkin | ||
 | Zinaida Volkonskaya (1792–1862) | The Dream: A Letter | ||
 | Alexander Volkov (1891–1977) | The Wizard of the Emerald City | ||
 | Marko Vovchok (1833–1907) | Ukrainian Folk Tales |  | |
| Julia Voznesenskaya (1940–2015) | The Women's Decameron | |||
| Alexander Vvedensky (1904–1941) | Murderers You are Fools |  | ||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Yakovlev (1886–1953) | The Peasant | |||
| Alexander Yashin (1913–1968) | A Feast of Rowan Berries | |||
| Ivan Yefremov (1908–1972) | Andromeda Razor's Edge The Bull's Hour The Land of Foam | |||
| Dmitri Yemets (born 1974) | Tanya Grotter series | |||
| Venedict Yerofeyev (1938–1990) | Moscow-Petushki | |||
| Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933–2017) | Wild Berries |  | ||
 | Semyon Yushkevich (1868–1927) |  | ||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Mikhail Zagoskin (1789–1852) | Tales of Three Centuries |  | |
| Sergey Zalygin (1913–2000) | The South American Variant | |||
 | Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) | We A Provincial Tale |  |  |
 | Boris Zaytsev (1881–1972) | Anna | ||
 | Ilia Zdanevich (1894–1975) | Rapture | ||
 | Yulia Zhadovskaya (1824–1883) | The Backward Girl | ||
 | Vera Zhelikhovsky (1835–1896) | The General's Will | ||
 | Boris Zhitkov (1882–1938) | Viktor Vavich |  | |
| Maria Zhukova (1804–1855) | Evenings on the Karpovka | |||
| Zinovy Zinik (born 1945) | The Mushroom-Picker | |||
 | Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907) | The Tragic Menagerie | ||
 | Nikolay Zlatovratsky (1845–1911) | Old Shadows | ||
 | Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895–1958) | Youth Restored Blue Book Before Sunrise |  | |
Some Buddhist terms and concepts lack direct translations into English that cover the breadth of the original term. Below are given a number of important Buddhist terms, short definitions, and the languages in which they appear. In this list, an attempt has been made to organize terms by their original form and give translations and synonyms in other languages along with the definition.
The following index is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the protected areas of South Africa: